The real character of the world, its flesh, is governed by the centers in the geometry.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• The real centers we see when we look at a situation in its wholeness control the real behavior of the thing, the life which develops there, and the feelings people have.claim0.822
  Asserts that functional outcomes are determined by the wholeness structure, not by abstract categories.
• A real center starts many diameters outside its skin or boundary; the structure beyond contributes to the centeredness.claim0.811
  Key property of authentic centers; they are not isolated objects but embedded in a larger field.
• Centers are the fundamental entities of which the world is made.claim0.808
  Ontological claim that centers, not particles or parts, are the building blocks of all phenomena.
• The centers which exist in a configuration have a real mathematical existence and are actually occurring features of the space itself.claim0.801
  Strengthens the claim that centers are not just psychological but physically real.
• Living structure—the field of centers—really is a mirror of the human heart.claim0.801
  The structural correspondence between the objective field of centers and the subjective human self.
• The geometry of the physical world has the most profound impact on human inner freedom and sense of life.claim0.790
  Central thesis of the chapter.
• Centers are above all, labile, they are foci of wholeness, they are not things, but regions, qualities, focal points of centeredness.quote0.789
  Key definition capturing the non-atomic, relational nature of centers as fields rather than objects.
• Good shape is built up from the simplest elementary figures; what seem like complex centers are made of simpler centers which are also alive, and these simpler centers give the complex ones their lifeclaim0.789
  Claim that even apparently organic or floral designs derive their life from geometrically simple components (triangles, rhombuses, hexagons) that allow complex cross-relationships